States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...February 6, 1837, accessed, August 22, 2013, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/slavery-a-positive-good/. Calhoun developed a theory of state sovereignty called "nullification" as the South faced mounting opposition to slavery every time Congress considered acquiring new...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...that they, all of them, came out in new ways. Q: I'm struck by your comments that you were there with Jheri in Belgium during her gender confirmation surgery. That's...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...direct, with the new Visitor Center on the top, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Lucille Babbitt: "I don't think it was God's will that it be...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the time of the Civil War. The Embarkation of the Acadians, 1881. Wood engraving by Émile Antoine Bayard and Henri Théophile Hildibrand. Courtesy of Art and Picture Collection, New York...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Besieged Terrain
...of The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South (University of Georgia Press, 1999). Thurmond has published numerous essays and interviews on environmental subjects and is currently working on...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Welcome to Liverpool South,” Washington Post, August 29, 1984. Bill King, “Athens: A City Attuned to New Wave-length,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, June 30, 1981. “Is Rock Dead?” People, January 17,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white. African Americans and whites still congregate separately in the newly integrated Lake Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12, 1963. Photograph by Ken Patterson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Operations, 1927. Coast and Geodetic Survey. From Records of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, RG 23. For more than a century the federal government has—through its participation in flood control—shaped...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947). By evaluating the strict codification of racial ideologies in the legislative councils of French and Spanish Louisiana...